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Who is to blame to wreck peace talks, Sri Lanka or TTs? MIL, Jun 22, 2006. Dr. Raj Baldev The head monk of a Buddhist temple has contradicted a Sri Lankan government report that the Tamil Tigers attacked his temple as per BBC. As per other sources close to head of a Buddhist Temple, the statement of Sri Lanka that Tamil Tigers attacked the temple was unauthentic; probably their motive was to abet the public against them. By issuing misguiding statement, Sri Lanka cannot win the hearts of the Tamil Tigers and so the peace talks might not mature and it goes against the collective interests of Sri Lankan govt., the people and the Tamil Tigers. Sr…

End killings of innocent Tamils, India tells Lanka Rants + Raves Print Email Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 New Delhi - India Thursday politely but firmly made it clear to Sri Lanka that its security forces must stop killing innocent Tamils in the name of combating the Tamil Tigers. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samraweera was conveyed the message by India’s political leadership which while being firmly committed to the island’s unity is bothered by increasing reports of attacks on innocent Tamils. An informed source told IANS: ‘The minister was told that civilian casualties should be avoided… and we hope that Sri Lankan security forces will not r…

By The Associated Press 2 hours, 15 minutes ago Associated Press Correspondent Matthew Rosenberg is covering the new outburst of violence in Sri Lanka, where the government is facing off against rebels and many fear the country has slid back into war after four years of a shaky cease-fire. ADVERTISEMENT ___ MONDAY, June 19, 5 p.m. local KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka I've checked into the 1-9, one of the two places to stay (for my take on the other one, check the previous post) in Kilinochchi, the main city in Tamileelam, the de-facto mini-state set up the Tamil Tiger rebels in the swaths of territory they control in Sri Lanka's north and…

The Sunday Times Defense Correspondent Iqbal Athas has inadvertently exposed the thinking behind the Kebitigollaw massacre conspiracy of the Sri Lankan state. His situation reported dated 18 June 2006 was dotted with details and the case for such a mindless and bloody campaign by the Sri Lankan state. Athas is well known for his limitless sources inside the Ministry of Defense, particularly in the intelligent services of Sri Lankan military who often talk exclusively to him on the condition of anonymity. He got carried with the excitement and the trust his anonymous sources had on him to perform the spindoctering on the state orchestrated Kebitigollaw massacre. …

Negative wealth effect By TN Ninan, editor and publisher of Business Standard Published: June 20 2006 06:20 | Last updated: June 20 2006 06:20 The key question to be asked is what effect the gyrations on the stock market will have on the real economy. Will the sharp drop in share prices mean that the real economy too will slow down? That is easy, and the answer is “Yes”. The tricky part is figuring out by how much. To take the macro picture first, a net outflow of portfolio investment means that the dollar inflow, which helped pay for the large deficit on trade in goods and services (more than $20bn a year), is no longer there. This puts pressure on the …

Paramilitary group abducts Muslims, demands ransom 11 Muslim dairy farm workers out of a group of 18, going out to work from the Muslim village of Thambalai, were abducted Saturday by the Karuna paramilitary group on Pollonaruwa-Sunkavil road, 10 k.m. east of Pollonaruwa. The abductees were being held in the close by jungles of Sinnavil, with ransom demands of 1 million rupees, relatives of the farm workers said. Thambalai villagers have managed to collect 100,000 rupees, and paid the abductors who then released 5 farm workers, and demanded 500,000 rupees for the release of the remaining 4. The abductees are detained and guarded by 6 armed paramilitaries in Sri …

Critics say Sri Lanka targeting civilians By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 53 minutes ago PESALAI, Sri Lanka - Nearly everyone in this seaside hamlet — the old women bent from a lifetime of toil, the fishermen weathered from days at sea, the children in tattered hand-me-downs — fled to the church Sunday as soon as they heard a police patrol was coming. "I thought they were going to come to shoot us all," said L.R. Peiris, a 58-year-old woman crying hysterically at the thought of government forces returning a day after five villagers were killed by Sri Lankan troops. Like nearly everyone else in Pesalai, all the dead were …

Sri Lankan forces 'target church' Attacks have been on the increase since the end of the ceasefire Sri Lankan forces have been accused of targeting a church in the north-western district of Mannar. The government denies this, but eyewitnesses described how the military attacked the church. An international aid worker has confirmed it. One woman was killed and more than 40 people injured in the incident. It comes after early-morning clashes in Mannar between the Sri Lankan navy and Tamil Tiger rebels, in which more than 30 people were said to have died. Some 200 people had been sheltering at the church when a grenade was thrown in, causing d…

Stand with the Victims of Vankalai and Pesalai ! By: World News Today – London Source: International Association of Tamil Academics - June 17, 2006 IATA Appeals to the College of Catholic Bishops Across the World The President of the International Association of Tamil Academics reported that he is mailing out over 3000 letters to all Catholic bishops across the world urging them “to stand on the side of the victims of Vankalai and Pesalai. IATA states that in an organized pogrom perpetrated by the Buddhist government of Sri Lanka where innocent Tamil children and helpless women and unarmed men are being selectively slaughtered, when churches are torched and …

Statement of Robert Blake before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during confirmation hearings as US ambassador to Sri Lanka, June 15, 2006 My challenge, if I am confirmed, will be to work with all legitimate political entities in Sri Lanka towards a durable peace, to show that peace and prosperity for all Sri Lankans are fundamental, interlinked goals. Peace provides the foundation for prosperity, which in turn demonstrates the benefits of peace and builds support for it. To reach these twin goals, the parties must be convinced that peace negotiations are the only way forward, that there can be no military solution to this conflict. Mr. Chairman and …

Sri Lankan forces 'target church' Attacks have been on the increase since the end of the ceasefire Sri Lankan forces have been accused of targeting a church in the north-western district of Mannar. The government denies this, but eyewitnesses described how the military attacked the church. An international aid worker has confirmed it. One woman was killed and more than 40 people injured in the incident. It comes after early-morning clashes in Mannar between the Sri Lankan navy and Tamil Tiger rebels, in which more than 30 people were said to have died. Some 200 people had been sheltering at the church when a grenade was thrown in, causing d…

COLOMBO, June 17 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military said around 37 people were killed in a sea and land battle with Tamil Tiger rebels on Saturday, and three suspected rebels in diving gear were seized at a beach near the capital's airport. Sri Lankan government jets hit targets near the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) stronghold Kilinochchi overnight in retaliation for an attack on a bus earlier this week that killed 64, the worst incident since a 2002 truce halted two decades of war. The Tigers deny the bus attack. "Eight LTTE boats destroyed by naval fire," a military spokesman said, revising down an earlier figure of 11. "Six navy sailors died. We have…

BBC World report also confirmed that the "military honours" were given during the funeral to the victims of the 15-July 2006 bus explosion. The government sponsored and much publicised mass burial ceremony in a predominantly Buddist part of the country who burn the remains according to the Buddist traditions further exposes the motives and the expectations of those who carried out the barbaric maccacre of its own citizens. The unusual military honours to the ordinary civilian victims points to the complicity of the government in a futile attempt to win sympathy and support.

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Ready to Kill, Willing to Die The rebel Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka use suicide bombers and go into battle with cyanide capsules around their necks. The EU has labeled them terrorists, but they say it's the Tamil people who are being terrorized. By Kevin Sites, Wed Jun 14, 12:26 AM KILINOCHCHI, LTTE-controlled Sri Lanka — Formed in Sri Lanka in 1976 amid growing ethnic tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, are known as one of the most disciplined, organized and ruthless rebel forces in the world. They are led by a shadowy figure named Velupillai Prabhakaran who is r…

Pro-LTTE website attacks Karunanidhi By M.R. Narayan Swamy, Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) A website that supports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas has come out with a stinging attack on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi over his government's alleged support to the breakaway faction of Karuna. In a hard-hitting commentary in Tamil, www.webeelam.com has accused the DMK government of allowing Karuna loyalists to recruit members from among Tamil civilians fleeing Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu and called it a 'very big betrayal'. It has also warned ominously: 'This will not be forgiven by world Tamils.' …

A look at some key facts about Sri Lanka, as violence threatens to push the island nation back to civil war. ___ GEOGRAPHY: A tropical teardrop-shaped island off India's southern tip, covering 25,500 square miles. Capital is Colombo. Plantations of coconut, rubber, tea, cinnamon and other spices, with large, sparsely inhabited areas of forest and scrub land. ___ PEOPLE: About 20 million, including 74 percent Sinhalese, 18 percent Tamil and 7 percent Muslim. Most Sinhalese are Buddhists, while Tamils are predominantly Hindus or Christians. The Tamil population is concentrated in the north and east, or in the central hill plantations. ___ …

Around 50 civilian passengers were killed and more than 30 wounded when a civilian bus was attacked by Claymore mine near Kebitigollawe, 23 km southeast of Vavuniya, Thursday around 7:50 a.m., medical sources said. Wounded passengers were rushed to Kepitigollawe and Anuradhapura hospitals. tamilnet

Discipline, death and martyrdom By Dumeetha Luthra BBC News, Trincomalee The Tigers are renowned for their discipline It is a small glass vial, no longer than a cigarette, and it is worn with a little black string as a pendant. It could almost be a fashion accessory if it were not for the white powder inside - a fatal dose of cyanide. Nothing symbolises the Tamil Tigers and their culture of death and martyrdom quite so succinctly. Every rebel wears it when on duty. Death is better than capture. Maraivendan describes exactly how it is taken. "We need to bite into the glass so that it will cut the skin on …

PUBLIC AI Index: ASA 37/015/2006 09 June 2006 UA 164/06 "Disappearance" SRI LANKA Rasanyagampillai Sivananthamoorthy (m), aged 35 Markandu Pushpakanthan (m), aged 26 Kandasamy Parimelalakan (m), aged 29 Vaikundavasan Vikunthakumar (m), aged 22 Ratnam Thayaruban (m), aged 19 Ponnambalam Partheepan (m), aged 22 Selvaratnam Sivanantham (m), aged 22 Ramachandran Rasakumar (m), aged 22 The eight Tamil men named above went to a Hindu temple in the north of the country on the evening of 6 May, to decorate it for a religious festival. The following morning they were reported missing and their whereabouts remain unknown. There are grave …

Added on June 04, 2006, 08:03 PM by whitebeach1234 (1 videos) Sri Lanka is a tiny South Asian country. It's government is so corrupt that it has been waging war on minority Tamils so the politicians and military officials can mooch of the defence contracts. Government corruption has crippled its economy!!! ... (more) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msz7-qDmIVc...n%20Sri%20Lanka

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Josy Joseph Sunday, June 11, 2006 23:16 IST NEW DELHI: Pakistan has opened a massive $250 million credit line for supplying Sri Lankan military equipment, including many offensive weapon systems such as tanks, say authoritative sources. The figure contradicts recent reports about Pakistan providing around $50 million military assistance to Lanka. Indian sources insist that an eager Pakistan is stepping it up to $250 million, raising several new uncomfortable questions for India. The report comes at a time when India is worriedly looking at Pakistan planning to gift two of its old submarines to Bangladesh. With China too exhibiting interest in cultivating India…

The Sri Lankan State & fascist media of the South has been systematically intimidating the SLMM and other international non-governmental organizations like the World Bank to toe their line through hate campaign, unethical reporting and misquoting from the original sources. Sri Lankan state media takes SLMM and their spokeswoman for an abusive ride in the name of "a special meeting organized by the Daily News".The news piece appeared on the 9th of June 2006 Daily News is a fine example of the state media's pathetic spin doctoring stunts. The alleged claims by Helen Olafsdottir such as "we will monitor it from Kandy if we have to" and that CFA is yet to become inv…

OSLO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan rebel Tamil Tigers want European Union members withdrawn from a five-nation truce monitoring mission, mediator Norway said on Thursday. The EU last month listed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a banned terrorist organisation after an upsurge in violence on the Indian Ocean island. "The LTTE has informed us that individual members of the EU cannot be members of the Nordic monitoring mission," Erik Solheim, Norway's minister for international development who brokered a 2002 truce, told a news conference. ... ..... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08062006/325/tige...ors-norway.html LTTE continues dialogue with Norwegia…